RPM & Tarball installs

Hello,

I recently tried to update my version of OpenSSL from b to g

On OpenSSL.org I could not find any RPMs for OpenSSL so I downloaded the tarball. The server that I have already has a version on it installed via RPM (or so it appears).

I carried out the usual tar xzvf <filename>, make, make test, make install. However I am not sure that the new version of OpenSSL has been installed. When I do an rpm -qa |grep openssl
I only see the old version, as also when I do an openssl version (this shows the old version number)

Does this mean my install was unsuccessful?

How do I upgrade a package if it has been installed using RPM when I do not have access to RPM? Is this wise?

Thanks for your help!

You can't upgrade an RPM with a tarball. You either need to get the most up-to-date RPM from your distro or uninstall the RPM and use just tarballs from then on. Or if you're brave, you can take the tarball and make your own RPMs and upgrade from those.

So now you have two installed versions of OpenSSL...
One rpm install and one source install. The rpm install is located in your path, which means that when you just run it without supplying the path, you'll get the rpm install. And the source install is located elsewhere but can be invoked by supplying the full path to it...

If your make install doesn't give you any errors, it should be installed somewhere.
If you want the latest version, do a source install and remove the rpm install prior to that.
If you want an rpm install, go to your distro's site and find it there. Don't do both...

//NoXcuz

Cheers guys,

If I just remove the RPM now, should all be ok then? Or will I need to re-install the tarball?

Thanks

Depends on if the rpm and the source install places files in the same directories. The rpm install might then remove files needed by the source install. But the easiest thing is just to try and remove the rpm and see what happens...

//NoXcuz

I would just remove the RPM and then reinstall the tarball just to be safe....can't hurt anything.